Tbh It could be saved just the community and players don't want combat to be saved... People would rather it be do it and be done with it instend of idk PLAYING THE GAME lol I'm not trying to be offensive but ... why are you playing a game if you dont want challanges to grow over and improve its not suppose to be easy...
Combat can only be solved when se and community actrually says: NO Its not okay to preform this badly at level 100, and instead encourage people to challenge themselves and improve, If someone can't swim you throw their .... into the ocean/river or lake and let them figure it out you either sink or swim there is no inbetween..
I'm sorry but we players have been excusing things that are just common sense at that level bracket that there is 0 excuse to not know by that point.
and the solution is easy just stop making every job easy, if you want a easy caster well play summoner not saying everyone in it wants easy but its okay to have 1-2 jobs that are easy within the job role.
I think what they honestly should do is make paladin easy to play warrior more complex but med to play and drk/gnb extremely diffuclt to play, same goes for every other job type.
Players tend to always say : making things hard doesnt mean fun, but in a most cases in gaming that is completely incorrect things being hard does equal more fun 78% of the time, Unless farming gathering are something along the levels of that or something like the sims are creative type games it being easy is fine in fact I love those types of things, island sancury type stuff is where its okay for it to be dumb down chill game play, but combat should never be easy period, if you are above level 56 you should know everh mecha in the game, how they function etc (in 80% of the cases of fights) You should know to use tank stance after level 30 sorry but that is being gentle because JOB QUEST AND NOVICE HALL TEACHS THIS STUFF, yet we excuse people for not following things that are a. taught to them by the job quest and b. taught again in novice hall and c. read the skills ...
Im sorry but i blame the players and community for how booring combat is...
sometimes just sometimes being a little rough and "mean" is the nicest thing you can do for someone that is something people dont accept